Age and enema volume

As a child I got most of my enemas from a bulb, and they probably were quite small. My first enemas from a bag were about a quart, judging from the bag being about half full. I assumed from reading our home first-aid book that a "normal" adult enema was about two quarts. Even as an adult it took me several tries to reach that mark. Even today I am not comfortable with more than a full two quart bag. Sometimes a second or third enema can get to 2-1/2 quarts but that is rare. I could never take three or four quarts as some of you have done.

I was 14 when I finally managed to take the entire 2 quart bag. Prior to that I was challenged to try to take more, but could never do it because each time I felt about to explode and had to stop. This time I forced myself to continue. When I finally looked up and saw that the entire bag was empty it made me feel so proud of myself

I was 11 or 12 when I took 2 quarts. But I used a bowl of soapy water and a bulb. I have never been given an enema, at least not one that I remember. I have always played solo. I liked inserting things in my anus when I was a child. I think it stemmed from when I had my adenoids and tubes put in my ears when I was 5-6 and was in the hospital. The nurse took my temperature rectally. She made me bend over the edge of the bed and lubed me up. From then on I was hooked. I liked the feeling of lube between my butt cheeks and sliding things in and out. When I was 9 or 10 I saw the movie, "The Right Stuff" and was intrigued by the enemas the astronauts were holding and became obsessed with trying one. I used to go into bookstores and thumb through indexes of books looking for enemas and reading all that I could about them. About that same time I found my Mom's folding syringe and regularly gave myself enemas with it. I experimented with all kinds of solutions and additives until I popped it to my dismay. Who knew mineral oil would destroy a rubber bag? I wish I still had that bag. And no my Mom never mentioned it or caught on that I enjoyed giving myself enemas. Part of me wishes that she had. But after the bag broke I wanted something easier and more concealable then it. I was a mall rat and there was a pharmacy in the mall so one day I mustered up enough courage to purchase a bulb. Anytime my parents would leave me at home or I was sick I would float a bar of ivory in a big mixing bowl of warm water and give myself cup after cup of soapy water. When I was 11 or 12 I was regularly taking 8-10 bulbfulls.

I got all of my enemas from bulb syringes until I graduated to the bag at 14. As far as volume, I was told to tell my mother when I thought I could hold no more and she always stressed that I would have to take a lot of solution for it to clean me out well. Each session meant many insertions and squeezes. When I told her that I was at my limit, she always coaxed me into a few more bulbs full before she let me go. I'm sure that she filled me with 2 quarts from the bulb at age ten and increased the volume until she started using the bag on me at 14. All of the enemas before 14 were over her lap as she sat on the closed toilet seat in the bathroom and filled and refilled the bulb from the sink full of warm Ivory soapy water next to her. Being filled over her lap never put any pressure on my abdomen because she had me over her lap with her thighs spread somewhat. All enemas at age 14 and older were done with me in a knee-chest position on a towel on the bathroom floor. She still sat on the closed toilet seat and I would face away from her. The first time she gave me the bag, I took the two quarts with ease because her previous bulb syringe enemas were almost certainly larger ones. Even after she started using the bag at 14, she still gave me bulb enemas about a third of the time.

I've gradually increased my standard as well as maximum volumes over the last 5-10 years, being 65 now. I just gradually increased from 2.5 to max of 4 over several months to a year. I took 5 q one time last year as an experiment after being comfortable with 4. It was pleasant enough but I'm probably sticking with max 4 until further notice. So age hasn't caused any reductions for me. My only "volume" problem is still only being able to get about 8-10" of a ~64Fr colon tube in past my bends.

Eric

I received the bulb from my aunt (think it was the 4oz) with increasing insertions the older i got until around 8, that is when the first bag enema appeared. The bag then continued to get more solution added the older i got.

My volume has definitely decreased. Now in my 60's, about 2 1/2 quarts of warm water with a tablespoon of Dr Bronner's provides a good relaxing and cleansing enema, and all the pressure I need for erotic stimulation. Rarely will I take a subsequent clear water rinse. Years ago, a three bag session was the norm and volume for each fill was always over 3 quarts. I just don't feel the need to be so aggressive with those thorough cleansing marathon enemas anymore.

I think overall my volume has increased. Many factors go into this though like equipment used, if I'm solo or not, what solution,temp of solutions etc...

As a young child (age 3 to about 6), I received my enemas (Ivory SSE's) from the standard 2-qt red bag, but I'm guessing that my mother only gave me 2 to 3 cups at a time, with an expel in between each enema. She was always very gentle when giving me enemas, and would stop the flow for a bit, when I said I couldn't take anymore. I suppose it was this very positive experience with enemas as a youngster that made me want to try them again solo when I went into puberty. Been enjoying enemas ever since....60+ years later. Just wish I weren't still doing them solo, as there is nothing more exquisite than a good slow warm enema coupled with a nice back and butt rub, and some manual stimulation of my erect penis.

I have no clue how much I got as a child, but I suspect it was not very much. Probably just a fleet bottle amount since I don't remember a red bag hanging.

My first 2 qt. enema was when I was in my early 30's. I had a new enema bag and I wanted to try it out completely. I eliminated almost immediately and it took so long to empty me completely out. I made sure I didn't do that again.

I have no clue how much I got when I was young for the couple of enemas I had, but it was probably a cup or two given in a "disposable" plastic enema bucket. The solution was probably very soapy because I really didn't like it.

I usually did about 2 quarts until recently. While I still usually do a 2-2.5 quart initial SSE , recently based on some tips I've been filling up my bag all the way for the rinse (I went ahead and got a 4 quart bag originally because I wasn't sure how much I would need and I was worried 1.8 quarts would be too small), and taking between 3 and 4 quarts. I don't know if this is age as much as just being willing to fill up more and having better relaxation. I'm still not sure if the 3-4 quart rinse is better than my earlier, smaller rinse, but it does make it feel like more of an accomplishment.

Got some bulb enemas when I was really sick , it was used several times a day like an IV , to keep me hydrated . Got lots of bag enemas over the years from Mom and lady at farm where I lived and worked . Had frequent health issues back then . Glad those days are behind me !

Bags usually looked full at start but seemed to still have a bulge at bottom when enema was done .Now we all know the bags do not hold a standard amount , never took time to measure capacity.

I would be sick , they would show up with full looking bag of soapy water , give some to me , and be gone , never really paid attention to quantity . Fascination came later on after I was 30 years old or so .

Just turned 76 still enjoy a good enema every other week for IBS .

I started with one liter at the age of 12, then i go up untill i take a full bag at age of 15, usually in the child year i used to take only micro fleet some time.

Mom only used a bulb on me - OTK - even when I was 13. There were certainly more refills and re-insertions as I got older, and the bowl she used to hold the solution got a little bigger too. I'd be surprised if I ever got much more than a quart though. Then again, I was a skinny little kid - probably weighed less than 80-90 lbs even at 13.

I'd be surprised if I ever got much more than a quart though. Then again, I was a skinny little kid - probably weighed less than 80-90 lbs even at 13.

A quart will work just fine for most people in most cases if you're just interested in emptying the bowels.

I started giving myself enemas when I was 13 (my anal eroticism begins). My mom's enema bag was a standard bag for a 1960's era bag, which probably was 1 to 1.5 quarts. So I would say that was about where I started in volume and stayed since my enema bags were drug store bags all they way up to my 1 gallon silicone bag purchased from Seeking Health about two years ago. Now I would say I am regularly taking about 3 quarts which is my max. I probably could have handled more in my early years certainly once I had finished growing, but I was limited by the equipment. I always filled my drug store bags to full capacity so that was my limit. Now with a bigger bag I take more.

So my volume was driven more bag size rather than age.

I was at the 2 quart mark before age 10, I was probably average size for my age, my memory says I was taking a full bag before that, if my mother was filling the bag all the way, I always thought she did.

About age 12, when I had time to play before my parents came home from work I'd see if I could take more, but the 2 quart Davol Comfy was pretty much my limit.

While I would occasionally experiment with more it wasn't until the E-Z-Em 2500cc bags became my favorite that I consistently went over two quarts.

The times I got to a gallon were with my Colon Therapist, Mildred Burgess, and that would have been my late 20s.

My mother had a really interesting way of determined how large an enema we should have to have.

For when we're we're up to age 11, we got our enemas over her lap w a 4 oz Davol Infant and Child bulb syringe

( It had the most wonderful baseball bat shaped tip that slipped in quick and easy no matte how tight we clenched to prevent that )

So anyway we got one 4 oz bulb full squirted firmly in our behinds ( to send it in deep ) for each year old we were

So as an example, at age 8 I would get 8 four ounce bulbs squirted in my butt.

8 bulbs X four oz per bulb = 32 oz or 1 quart for me at age 8

Not sure where she got this method of deciding, but it ALWAYS WORKED !!

Whatever​ the amount she injected, that last bulb was always real hard to take and our bellies were always swelled like we were pregnant little kids.

Then at age 10, I got an enema from Nana ( mom's mother ) and she gave me 10 bulbs full so I guess that's where mom got it from and was probably how she got hers when she was little.

That works out to be a pint for a four year old

At 11 we graduated to a full bag in the tub and mom's enema bag held 2 1/4 quarts. So at went from getting a 40 oz enema at age 10 to a 72 oz enema from age 11 on. ( It had us fussin we still wanted our enemas from the smaller bulb )

Hi all, it's been a while.

I got my first enema from my grandma at age 14, she had a 2 1/2 qt bag. She demonstrated on herself first just to put me at ease with the process. She started me on enemas on the 2nd day of my cycle to relieve cramps etc. (it worked).

I was tall even at 14, (6 ft). She told me to take as much as I could comfortably. I ended up taking the whole back with little cramping, she was even a little impressed. From that point on it was at least once a month and sometime more if I just felt the urge.

At age 16 I started having sex, it was then my grandma suggested an enema before an evening out with my beau, saying that many men enjoyed anal sex (or back-door as she used to say). Back in those days it was a safe way to have sex.

I started taking larger quantities in my twenties, a full three qts. by forty I was on to an enema series where I could take a full 4 qts for my gran-finale.

I'm 73 now, and still enjoy an enema series and a full 4qt green tea enema weekly.

I started taking enemas at 15 i had a hard time taking 2 qrt .over the last 50 plus yrs of enemas i can now take a 6 qrt with no problem does anyone else enjoy 6qrts

I've never done 6 quarts and only done 5 q once last year as an experiment. Five quarts of saline was fine, without cramps or pain, but I'm sticking with 4-4.5 max unless I see a compelling reason to go over that amount. My usual enjoyment/sexual stimulant enema now is 3-3.5 quarts with a retention to savor the effects from 15-30 minutes. Great fun.

Eric

I started at the age of 12. I found the enema in a boots tin. It was a pump one. I used to give my self one every 4 weeks or so.

I am now 73 and take one most mornings.. it feels great. Gets you ready for the day ahead

I can't remember exactly what age I started giving myself enemas. It could not have been before I was 10 because I started after we moved into our new house and I was 10 and in fifth grade. I know for sure that I gave myself enemas after walking home from school starting in the seventh grade and that would have put me at 12 years old. It is possible I started at age 11 because my dad was away from home a lot and it seemed the bag showed up in the shower after he started to date a certain woman when I was 11 years old. Anyway, sometime in the time frame of when I was 11-12 years old I figured out what to do with the bag and nozzle.

We had three bathrooms in the house. One was a utility bathroom (sink and toilet) in the basement...a bathroom I could use to when I took an enema outside or in the basement. The pipes for the main floor of the house were exposed and made a great place to hang an enema bag. The main bathroom was a full bath with toilet, tub and sink. The third bathroom was what they termed a three-quarter bath with a toilet, sink, and built in shower off the master bedroom. My dad preferred that we took showers in that bathroom rather than the tub in the main bath.

It was a two quart, open top, Faultless red rubber bag with a screw on nozzle (usually the multi-port curved douche nozzle). The bag hung on the shower rod in the bathroom off the master bedroom. I used an anodized aluminum 16 ounce cup to fill the bag from the shower nozzle and it took 4 cups to fill the bag. I could take a full bag from the very start. Loved to feel the warm water flowing into me, holding it for a few minutes and then discharging it in the shower to wash down the drain. Then the next bag, and the next. Usually I would take two to four bags while taking a shower.

Over a period of weeks, I gradually increased the volume I held by the number of cups I added to the bag. I eventually got myself up to eight 16-ounce cups. I also increased my ability to hold the enema for longer periods of time before expelling. I tried to work myself up to ten 16-ounce cups (5 quarts) and could reach the volume occasionally, but it was mostly 4-4.5 quarts at most with two-four enema filling and expelling cycles. No additives to the water, though I did like to experiment with water temperature. I took most of the enemas standing up, though I did like to lay myself over the edge of the shower with the tube up my ass and the water flowing as I used the shower tiles to stroke myself to a nice orgasm (once I had figured out how to do that and that I liked it very much).

When I was in my 30's, I got back into enemas for a while. Liked the enemas of 3-4 quarts but had only a two quart bag and it was a combination bag that doubled as a hot water bottle as well. So, that required multiple fillings. I liked really fast fills and used really long hose lengths to hang the bag quite high to accomplish this (though I never used the straight enema pipe/nozzle, always the douche nozzle). I could hang the bag from the balcony from my bedroom overlooking my living room with a nominal height from the bag to the first floor of more than 13 feet. My back porch deck and yard was very private and I could give myself enemas outside, night and day (though if I hung my bag from my deck's railing and walked out to my ground level sun deck or my hammock in the daytime with the nozzle inserted, my neighbor could have seen me from his second floor spare bedrooms).

Now, 50 years later, I can still take that much liquid volume (and sometimes more) though my toys are more sophisticated. And there are certain enema solutions that I like to play with that I didn't play with earlier.

I started taking enemas on my own, after never having been given them as a child, at about age 11. These were from a smaller infant squeeze bulb that required many refillings - judging from how many times I had to refill it and how much water would be left in the bulb, I was probably taking about 1 quart, sometimes up to 1.5. Later at age 14 I figured out how to use the shower hose and was able to take larger volume enemas much more easily and efficiently, and based on how those felt, I was likely getting up to 2 quarts, maybe 2.5 at most. This was confirmed when I first got a real enema bag at 21, and found I could generally take the full 2 quarts without much effort. I would sometimes refill the bag just to see how much I could take, and I would usually only be able to take 2.5 quarts, sometimes 3. Around that age I also managed to give myself about a 3 quart enema with many refillings of a larger blue douche bulb, and at the time I recall it feeling about the fullest I'd ever been. Enemas were mostly an occasional event for me over the years but by age 27 I managed to make a lot more time for frequent large enemas. About two to three times a week I'll take a series of several large fills - my newer gallon bag really helps with making sure there's always enough water available. With more frequent practice over the past year or so I've found that I can now often take 3.5 quarts, and on several occasions I've taken 4. I only once got up to about 4.5, which seems to be my absolute upper limit and which I'm not really interested in attempting again. When I was younger I would always fantasize about being able to take much larger volumes, and by now I'm pretty happy with where my capacity is at 😃

As a child, I got enemas with a bulb, usually only a couple of shots, so not very much. My first bag enema at ten was about a half of the bag, so maybe a quart and I could not believe all of that water was in my belly. I started reading our home first aid book, and medical books in the school library and was surprised to find that a "normal" adult enema was considered to be two quarts. Wow!

I began to gradually increase my quantity. It took considerable practice to get two quarts in. Even today after years of practice I rarely get over two quarts in. Admittedly, I do not like discomfort or pain so I do not push it. I want to enjoy my enema.

I’ve never had anything but bag enemas, except for the one Fleet when I was trying to move a hard plug... which got me back into enemas. The Fleet was almost useless, but it lubed things up enough I could remove the impaction with my fingers. It might have been fun to have help.

Now my childhood enemas, near as I can tell probably got up two about 2 quarts.

Now in my mid 40’s I can take a 2,500 cc bag most times, thinking about trying a bit more.

I am wondering where my ability to take up to a full 2 quart bag went? I was given frequent enemas as a child and even into my teen years. By age 12 my mother graduated me from half a bag to full bag enemas at the urging of her sisters and I could take 2 quart enemas with difficulty, but I could take it all. (If not, you started the process over with another full bag!)

As I aged, I now find it difficult to TAKE more than 1 quart during an initial enema filling. If I am being GIVEN the enema I can generally tolerate almost an entire bagful - especially if administered with a colon tube. But even after a couple of small fillings to clear the colon, I cannot take a full bag any more.

Is this a common experience? I know I have slowed down in several ways, but why can't I take as much solution as I did at 15?

Never had an enema as a child, started as an adult.

Can take 2 qt easy, can take 3qt but retention is a struggle. Have done 4 qt after 2 and 3qt warm ups. Maybe that's just me.

My family had a traditional red 2 quart enema bag with a F18 12 inch rectal tube. Despite my protests, I was always required to take a fill bag of very warm Ivory soap enema and the hold it twenty minutes.

When I was in my early 20's, I discovered a 3 quart red enema bag as Macy's NYC Home store - which I immediately bought, and used as my regualy enema bag for about 10 years, until I discover Sherena and promptly got their superb black 4 quart enema bag with F30 colon tube - which I I literally "wore out'.

Then I discovered 6 quart enema bags, which for many years became my new standard. Later, I discovered a variety of devices such as camping water bags and ceramic water containers which I equipped for even larger enemas - as much as I could handle. I maxed out at about 10 quarts - WHEW !

I now usually take 4 quarts, and occasionally 5 or 6 quarts.

I've always wondered if my increasing enema volume over the years has expanded my colon's enema capacity. I think obviously YES.

How have my thousands of high volume enemas effected my colon? After my last colonosocpy (which I preped for by taking large volume enemas "until clear"), the doctor spontaniously declared that I have an exceptionally health looking colon !!! YEA ENEMAS

I was 12 when I gave myself my first full 2qt bag enema. It was my first time self administering, but I jumped into the deep end. It went very well, amazing, in fact. Only a few enemas were given to me before that. I could count them on 1 hand. Sneaked the opportunity when my parents weren't home for a few hours. What an experience!